Quotes about hero page 3
“Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.”
Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon
Prologue (p. 5)
Source: Gardens of the Moon (1999)
Context: “Heed the lesson there, son.”
“What lesson?”
“Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don’t notice. You want to live free, boy, live quietly.”
“I want to be a soldier. A hero.”
“You’ll grow out of it.”
“But no man's a hero to himself.”
Ray Bradbury book Something Wicked This Way Comes
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes
“It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. III : A Controversy; Gilbert to Helen
Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
“The gods need heroes. They always have.”
Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian
Source: The Last Olympian
Dean Koontz book The Darkest Evening of the Year
Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year
“Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: Steelheart
“Every man is a hero in his own story, Princess.”
Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker
Denth
Source: Warbreaker (2009)
Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer
Source: The Gift
“Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Shadowfever
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Interview published with the Biograph album set (1985)
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Christopher Reeve (1952–2004) actor, director, producer, screenwriter
Still Me (1999); also quoted at the Christopher Reeve Foundation http://www.christopherreeve.org/site/c.geIMLPOpGjF/b.1097025/k.6FF5/Christopher_and_Dana_Reeve.htm <br class="br">Context: When the first Superman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to promote it. The most frequent question was: What is a hero? My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences. Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. They are the real heroes, and so are the families and friends who have stood by them.
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) American poet
Source: The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971
“No true hero ever believes that they are one.”
Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist
Source: UnSouled
“You need to find yourself a new hero." - Skulduggery Pleasant.”
Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer
Source: Death Bringer
“Should I warm the oven and bake you a batch of hero cookies? - Zephyra”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: One Silent Night
“Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.”
Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram
Source: Shantaram
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Clary Fray, to Emma Carstairs, pg. 95
Variant: Heroes aren't always the ones who win. They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer
Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself
Frank Miller (1957) American writer, artist, film director
"Frank Miller: I Stole From The Best!" COMICDOM interview (22 January 2006), edited by Dimitris Sakaridis http://www.comicdom.gr/interviews.php?id=17&lang=en <br class="br">Context: My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service.
“Heroes save worlds," Clary said. "They don't destroy them.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“He did what heroes do after their work is accomplished; he died.”
Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace
Source: War and Peace
“Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.””
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
“And you will understand all too soon
That you, my children of battle, are your heroes”
Nikki Giovanni (1943) American writer and academic
Source: The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998
“CALVIN:
Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.”
Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Source: The Hero With a Thousand Faces
“Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.”
Carl von Clausewitz book On War
On War (1832), Book 3
“How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.”
Mercedes Lackey Reserved for the Cat
Source: Reserved for the Cat
“You are the Hero of your own Story.”
Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“Live as a villain, die as a hero”
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Source: Wall and Piece
“Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous."
"Who made up that rule?"
"It's a known fact…”
David Eddings (1931–2009) American novelist
Source: The Seeress of Kell
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
Source: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657.
“Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer book The Cost of Discipleship
Source: The Cost of Discipleship
Norman Mailer book The Presidential Papers
Preface
The Presidential Papers (1963)
Context: Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.
